Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Akamai
Technologies, Inc. provides content delivery and cloud infrastructure
services for accelerating and improving applications over the Internet
in the United States and internationally. The company offers application
and cloud performance solutions to enhance the operation of the
applications used by enterprises to connect with their employees,
suppliers, and customers. Its solutions include Web Application
Accelerator, which enables enterprises to run various applications; and
IP Application Accelerator that is designed to optimize the performance,
availability, and real-time sensitivity associated with IP-enabled
applications delivered over Internet-related protocols. The company also
provides video and software solutions that are designed to enable
enterprises to execute their large file management and distribution
strategies, which include media delivery solution to entertainment
industry; and electronic software delivery solution that handles the
distribution of software for its customers. In addition, it offers
Website optimization services for accelerating business-to-consumer
Websites that integrate collaborative content and applications into
their online architecture; security and protection solutions that
address the Internet security requirements; and network operator
solutions, which provide custom solutions to commercial and government
customers.

To review Akamai’s stock, please take a look at the 1-year chart of
AKAM (Akamai Technologies, Inc.) below with my added notations:

AKAM
had been working its way higher since its June bottom. Along the way,
AKAM formed an uptrending support level (brown) and for the last (3)
months the stock had been hitting resistance at $40 (navy). At some
point one of those (2) levels would have to break. Well, last week the
stock broke through the $40 resistance and hit a new 52-week high.

armstrongeconomics.com / By Martin Armstrong
There
has been a long-term trend in major inflations and deflations. The
numbers are 23 and 26 years. There is sufficient data that has survived
even from the Temple of Apollo on the Island of Delos which was
essentially the ancient world’s central bank. Just as we know there was a
major default of some 13 cities, we also know there was a major real
estate bubble between 314-290BC. The Temple rented land owned by Apollo.
Land prices soared in part due to a rise in commodity prices caused by
weather. The rally lasted 23 years as the commodity bubble burst in
290BC.READ MORE

Japan’s
yen fell on Monday, after incoming Japanese premier Shinzo Abe said he
would try to pass laws to strip the Bank of Japan of its independence if
it refused to set a 2pc inflation target.from Telegraph.co.ukSterling
bought 136.5 yen in Monday morning trade from 136.2 yen on Friday,
after Mr Abe threatened on Sunday to revise a law guaranteeing the BoJ’s
independence if it did not back his proposed inflation goal. The dollar
fetched 84.5 yen from 84.24 yen.
“The yen is finding sellers, even in thin holiday trade,” said Jason
Hughes, head of premium client management for IG Markets Singapore.
“The changes in political circles in Japan mean we will see a more aggressive stance in weakening,” he told AFP.
Mr Abe has said that he will pick someone who agrees with his views
on the need for bolder monetary easing to succeed governor Masaaki
Shirakawa when his term expires in April next year.Continue Reading at Telegraph.co.uk…

As the author of www.SilverPriceAdvisor.com I
believe that silver could go to $60 per ounce from today’s price of
just $30 by the end of 2014. That would be double from today’s current
prices in just a little over two years! I also believe silver will be
the best single investment of this decade. The following article is
focused on why I think that you should seriously consider having a
significant percentage of your investment portfolio in silver.

Many
gold investors deride silver as the “poor man’s gold” because of its
low relative price to gold. They also don’t like the fact that it
because it is used primarily as an industrial metal it can be negatively
affected by a cyclical downturn in the economy. This is opposite of
gold which is viewed almost entirely as a precious metal. Many years
ago, the silver market was so oversupplied because there were huge
artificial inventories of silver. This was because the US took currency
(coins) out of circulation due to its physical silver content. Because
of this artificial situation, huge surpluses hung over the market until
these excess inventories were depleted. This led to silver prices
crashing as low as $2 and then traded around $5 for years. Because
silver had so decoupled from the price of gold during this period, it
began to be thought of as just another industrial metal and not a
precious metal.
There are still skeptics who think of silver as
just another industrial metal. However after a 600% rise in price from
$5 to $30 since 2003, it has begun again to be viewed as a precious
metal. I think that silver has only completed about fifty percent of
that process. As this transformation continues there will be additional
significant moves higher in price. That will attract more investors to
silver again until it once again retains its true status as a precious
metal.

The amount of silver consumed annually and bought for
investment exceeds currently exceeds total annual mining output and has
for years. That gap has been filled by sellers willing to sell from
existing inventories and as prices rise. As time passes this will
naturally push prices significantly higher until this fundamental
imbalance reaches a true equilibrium price where supply is closer to
demand.